Key facts and rankings

General info

1.year established

1893

The university's long history can indicate excellent traditions and more resources. Source: university's official website, 2018.

Best

Harvard Medical School

1782

2.academic staff

2448

Number of academic staff. Data is obtained from national agencies such as National Ministry of Education, National Bureau of Statistics, National Association of Universities and Colleges, National Rector's Conference.

Best

Harvard Medical School

8924

3.endowment

2.59$ billion (Johns Hopkins University)

A financial endowment is a transfer of money and/or property donated to an institution. In the United States, the endowment is often integral to the financial health of educational institutions. Alumni or friends of institution sometimes contribute capital to the endowment. Source: Wikipedia, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

32$ billion

4.student to staff ratio

13:1 (Johns Hopkins University)

A measure of the average staffing level in the university. Shows how many students fall for one staff member. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Weill Cornell College

0.16:1

5.alumni network

16000

An alumni association is an association of graduates or, more broadly, of former students (alumni). In the United Kingdom and the United States, alumni of universities, colleges, schools (especially independent schools), fraternities, and sororities often form groups with alumni from the same organization. Source: university's official website, 2018.

Best

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

50000

6.extracurricular activities

460 (Johns Hopkins University)

A wide range of extracurricular activities, like sports, drama, choir classes, research trips, ect. shows that university supports not only academical interests of students but also their hobbies. Source: university's official website, 2018.

Best

Weill Cornell Graduate School

1019

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Admissions

1.number of applicants

295

A high number of applicants can indicate that a university is in high demand and has a good overall image and reputation.

Best

NYU School of Medicine

8835

2.graduate students

1387

A high number of Masters and PhD students can indicate that the university has a research focus. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

2164

3.admission rate

45.6%

An admission rate shows the percentage of applicants that was accepted by university. Low acceptance rate makes it difficult to get a place, but also can indicate the prestige and high education level. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Weill Cornell College

1.7%

4.average admission SAT score

1405 (Johns Hopkins University)

The SAT is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. SAT scores indicate how hard it is to get in to a university and can also indicate the level of educational requirements. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Boston School of Public Health

2016

5.average SAT score in critical reading

690 (Johns Hopkins University)

The SAT is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. SAT scores indicate how hard it is to get in to a university and can also indicate the level of educational requirements. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

750

6.average SAT score in math

715 (Johns Hopkins University)

The SAT is a standardized test for college admissions in the United States. SAT scores indicate how hard it is to get in to a university and can also indicate the level of educational requirements. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

750

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Facilities

1.number of museums

4 (Johns Hopkins University)

Source: Wikipedia, 2018; city's official website, 2018.

Best

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School

4

2.Has a museum

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Source: university's official website, 2018.

3.dorm capacity

2669 (Johns Hopkins University)

The number of students that can be hosted in dormitories. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

With a bigger library collection, the university can offer more books, magazines, online resources, etc. to its students. Source: university's official website, 2018.

Best

Yale School of Public Health

25850000

6.cost of room and board

13390$ (Johns Hopkins University)

The approximate cost of room and board per academic year. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

College of Health Solutions

11436$

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Honors

1.Is a member of the Ivy League

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism. Source: university's official website, 2018.

For example

Harvard School of Public Health

2.Nobel laureats alumni

15 (Johns Hopkins University)

The total number of the alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals. Alumni are defined as those who obtain bachelor, Master's or doctoral degrees from the institution. Source: Nobel Prize's website, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

67

3.Nobel laureats staff

21 (Johns Hopkins University)

Source: Nobel Prize's website, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

66

4.patent applications

92500

A patent application is a request pending at a patent office for the grant of a patent for the invention described and claimed by that application. Number of applications shows how creative and inventive are students. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

College of Nursing and Health Innovation

99100

5.position in QS ranking regarding academic reputation

4

The Academic Reputation Index is the centrepiece of the QS World University Rankings® carrying a weighting of 40%. The results are based on the responses to a survey distributed worldwide academics from a number of different sources. Source: Top Universities QS Ranking, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

1

6.position in QS ranking regarding employer reputation

4

The results are based on the responses to a survey distributed worldwide among employers from a number of different sources. Source: Top Universities QS Ranking, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

1

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Tuition & Aid

1.grants per year per student

29595$ (Johns Hopkins University)

The average amount of funding that is available for a student per academic year (grants, scholarships and/or financial aid given to eligible students). Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Stanford School of Medicine

44000$

2.tuition fee growth rate

3.7%

A lower growth rate for tuition fees indicates that the cost of studying at the university is not increasing too quickly year on year. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

College of Health Solutions

2.9%

3.tuition fees per year

45750$

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition, refer to the annual fee charged for educational instruction during higher education. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

College of Health Solutions

5716$

4.average financial aid

20.69$ million (Johns Hopkins University)

A general amount of financial aid for students in millions of dollars. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

Weill Cornell Graduate School

245$ million

5.tuition fees per year for international students

45750$

Tuition payments, known primarily as tuition, refer to a fee charged for educational instruction during higher education. Source: university's official statistics, 2018.

Best

College of Nursing and Health Innovation

22977$

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Miscellaneous

1.ARWU rank

17 (Johns Hopkins University)

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) uses six objective indicators to rank world universities, including the number of alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, number of highly cited researchers selected by Thomson Scientific, number of articles published in journals of Nature and Science, number of articles indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, and per capita performance with respect to the size of an institution. Source: ARWU, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

1

2.U.S. News rank

16 (Johns Hopkins University)

The U.S. News World's Best Universities rankings, based on the QS World University Rankings, evaluated schools in countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, China, and more, and identified these to be the world's top universities. Source: U.S. News, 2018.

Best

Harvard School of Public Health

3

3.Forbes rank

46 (Johns Hopkins University)

According to the Forbes' annual list of America’s 650 Top Colleges. The rankings focus on the things that matter the most to students: quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low-levels of debt. Source: Forbes, 2018.

Best

Stanford School of Medicine

1

4.position on Times Higher Education ranking

16 (Johns Hopkins University)

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual ranking published by the British magazine “Times Higher Education”. Information is supplied by Thomson Reuters and provides performance based data. Main ranking indicators are based on the universities' core missions- teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.